Susan Orlean became a staff writer for
The New Yorker in 1992. She had been contributing both signed
articles and “Talk of the Town” pieces since 1987. Prior
to joining The New Yorker, Orlean was a contributing editor
at Rolling Stone and also at Vogue, where she wrote
on numerous figures in both the music and fashion industries. Previously,
she had been a columnist, first for the Boston Phoenix, and
then for the Boston Globe Sunday Magazine. She has also written
for The New York Times Magazine, Spy, Esquire, and Outside.
Orlean has written several books, including The Bullfighter Checks
Her Makeup: My Encounters with Ordinary People, a collection of
stories which was released in January 2001; Red Sox and Blue Fish
(1989), a compilation of columns she wrote for the Globe Sunday
Magazine; Saturday Night (1990), a journal of essays which
chronicle the Saturday nights she spent in communities across the country;
The Orchid Thief (1999), a narrative about orchid poachers
in Florida. The Orchid Thief has been made into the movie Adaptation,
written by Charlie Kaufman and directed by Spike Jonze.
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